Hello Lemmy,
Past 30 days I have installed Debian GNU/Linux and Windows 10 probably around 6-8 times. I am stuck not being able to decide what I want…
I dislike Windows 10 software management, having to install most things from the product website. I also don’t like my system installing bloatware automatically even after uninstalling it manually. Also window management, desktop customization and other elements I am custom to on Linux are lacking on Windows. But with simplewall and some other third party software I can tolerate Windows…
The reason I keep switching back and forth to Windows is are the video games. I know there is no real technical limitation for Linux distro with proprietary NVIDIA or AMD open-source driver installed which would prevent it from running modern games. However its quite a hassle getting games to run manually with Wine. Perhaps if I had the money I would be able to buy games from Steam and run them with Proton with minimal effort, but I can not do that at the moment. Also I do not like having to run Steam because I feel like that defeats the point of using free OS…
Anyways this post probably have no point to it, just rambling how I cannot make my mind regarding my OS. At the moment I am back on Linux but I have none games installed, i don’t know how long will I last with this state…
I find personally that my current distro takes up barely any space compared to Windows and a few games only, so there’s minimal overhead to having two operating systems on the same disk. On my current setup I have a single SSD dualbooting both operating systems; Windows is ~ 180 GB while my daily driver distro is a 20 GB partition, of which it currently takes up 10 GB of space. There’s not going to be a lot of overlap in applications that you install on both systems, and it even helps you develop better habits. No more gaming when there’s work to be done; you have to restart and boot into Windows to do that 😉
Another thing to consider is that for all of the distros I’ve tried (not a lot), you can easily access files stored on your NTFS Windows partition. You can just mount it and access files there when you need them.